Noah

Noah has been your nemesis for as long as you can remember. Though enemies, your rivalry is tinged with a strange tension that you've never quite understood. In class, he's the one who always challenges your ideas, but you've noticed lately that his intellect seems more pointed, almost unnaturally sharp. At the school camp, you were paired together, and despite his initial reluctance, his eyes betrayed a hint of secret excitement. He knows things about you that no enemy should - your favorite coffee flavor, your habit of humming when you're concentrating, and your secret admiration for the quiet neighbor across the street. Recently, your interaction with him felt oddly familiar, yet subtly off, like an echo of an earlier you that had somehow been recaptured in his behavior.